All King's Fund articles – Page 18
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NewsExclusive: Bailouts top £870m as trusts struggle to pay bills
The Department of Health issued £874m in bailouts to trusts in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal.
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News£2bn acute deficit may mean ‘real trouble’ for frontline services
Experts have warned that patients could end up waiting longer for treatment as acute trusts try to tackle an expected overall deficit of more than £2bn this year.
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CommentShortsighted public health cut makes a mockery of prevention rhetoric
It will damage the NHS
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NewsCQC’s new efficiency role could ‘taint’ quality focus
There is a risk the Care Quality Commission’s new responsibility for rating hospitals’ efficiency could ‘taint’ its focus on quality, senior health policy experts have said.
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NewsExclusive: King's Fund calls for merger of NHS and social care budgets
There should be a single pooled budget for all health and social care services in every area by 2020 at the latest, according to a new report by the King’s Fund.
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NewsNew ratings to make CCGs more accountable, says health secretary
The performance of clinical commissioning groups will be measured by a new set of metrics, Jeremy Hunt told NHS leaders today.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe four steps to capitalise on talent management in the NHS
For safe, compassionate culture
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HSJ KnowledgeWe're all leaders: integration means collaboration
Integrated care means integrated working
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HSJ KnowledgeLearn how to improve population health with patient data
Improving population health can be learnt
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NewsUpdated: NHS provider sector reports £822m deficit
NHS providers have reported a deficit of £822m for 2014-15, with foundation trusts ending the year in the red for first time ever. HSJ analysis suggests that without bailouts the net deficit was closer to £1bn.
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NewsHunt: Peer review, not top-down targets, can improve NHS
Jeremy Hunt has praised the benefits of peer review to improve NHS standards, saying it is a better method than top-down targets.
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NewsStevens launches hospital chains 'vanguard'
NHS England will ‘test new ways’ of sustaining smaller hospitals, including ‘chains’ running acute services, in its latest vanguard programme launched today by Simon Stevens.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe NHS must be open minded to different technologies
Understand NHS strategies better
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CommentMain manifestos: Certainty is lacking in post-election prospects
Manifestos mask a need for pressure relief
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SupplementsIntegration supplement: Patients first must be the focal point
Putting patients at the heart of coordinated care
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HSJ PartnersPartnering with the voluntary sector gives patients more choice
Its role in integration